Klaus Schreiber (chemist)

Klaus Schreiber (born January 25, 1927 in Lübeck , † June 9, 2009 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German chemist and natural product researcher . From 1968 to 1989 he was director of the Institute for Plant Biochemistry , a non-university research institute of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and a forerunner of the currently existing Leibniz Institute for Plant Biochemistry .

Life

Klaus Schreiber was born in Lübeck in 1927 and studied chemistry at the University of Rostock , where he also received his doctorate in 1953 with a thesis on the glycoalkaloids of the nightshade family . In 1962 he was at the University of Jena habilitation . He then worked until 1968 as a department head at the Central Institute for Genetics and Crop Plant Research in Gatersleben . The German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, later the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , appointed him professor in 1965.

In the same year he also became professor for chemical physiologist at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . In 1967 he became deputy director of the Institute for Plant Biochemistry in Halle an der Saale . A year later, he succeeded Kurt Mothes as head of the institute, which he held until 1989. He was followed from 1989 to 1990 by Klaus Müntz and from May 1990 Benno Parthier , who headed the institute until it was dissolved at the end of 1991 and re-established as the Leibniz Institute for Plant Biochemistry . He died in Halle (Saale) in 2009 .

Klaus Schreiber was accepted into the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1966 and as a corresponding member in 1969 and a full member in 1971 as a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. In addition, he was a member of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the GDR . In 1967 and 1979 he received the GDR National Prize .

Chemistry and biochemistry of the Solanum alkaloids. Berlin 1961
Gibberellins, their derivatives and degradation products: a tabular overview. Berlin 1966 (as co-author)
Conjugated Plant Hormones: Structure, Metabolism and Function. Berlin 1987 (as editor)

Clerk, Klaus . In: Werner Hartkopf:The Berlin Academy of Sciences. Its members and award winners 1700–1990. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1992,ISBN 3-05-002153-5, p. 325.

Important chemist from Halle dies Press release of the Leibniz Institute for Plant Biochemistry on June 15, 2009 on the occasion of the death of Klaus Schreiber

personal data
SURNAME	Clerk, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chemist and natural product researcher
DATE OF BIRTH	January 25, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH	June 9, 2009
Place of death	Halle (Saale)